UCLA Health System to make reforms as a result of the federal health care bill

Health care reform is happening within the UCLA Health System, but it is not necessarily President Barack Obama’s bill driving the reform, administrators say.

In a presentation to the UC Board of Regents on March 17, John Stobo, the UC senior vice president for health sciences and services, emphasized that the UC must address spiraling health care costs regardless of the fate of the bill, which has been threatened with repeal by Republicans.

“My feeling is that (the bill) is not going to be the major driver (of UC hospital reform),” Stobo said in an interview this week.

Survey trends show an increase in college graduates working in public service

Increasingly scarce jobs in the private sector have led a new generation of college students to look to nonprofit organizations and public service jobs for post-graduation employment.

According to the New York Times’ analysis of the American Community Survey from the United States Census Bureau, the number of college graduates working for the federal government increased 16 percent from 2008 to 2009, and 11 percent for nonprofit organizations.

UCLA does not offer specific numbers for graduates heading to the public sector, but surveys by the College of Letters and Science reflect unsteadiness in the job market.